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PROB 5/3904 Miscellaneous Inventories, Accounts, and Associated Documents. ASCOUGH, Francis, draper. 1671
PROB 11/282/169 Will of John Ascough or Aiscough, Clothworker of Saint Benet Paul's Wharf, City of London. 21 September 1658s Wharf, City of London. 21 September 1658 +
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'''A.9:'''
The 26th of September 1657.
T … '''A.9:'''
The 26th of September 1657.
Touching the ''Anne''}<br />
''and Mary''}
'''Rp. 1.'''
'''Nicholas Lorson''' of Timsborough in Norway Marchant<br />
aged 31 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of Lawes, and of the Judges<br />
of the high Court of the Admiraltie of England, and<br />
exámined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred on the<br />
behalfe of Edward Ascough and others, owners of the<br />
shipp the ''Anna and Mary'', saith and deposeth as followeth<br />
videlicet
That hee well knoweth the said shipp the ''Anna and Mary'' interrogated<br />
(whereof Richard Beswick is master) and hath soe donne ever since her<br />
building, which was donne about a yeere and halfe since at Oskarstraut<br />
in Norway. And saith shee is of the burthen of two hundred tonnes<br />
and carrieth seaven guns, And that Edward Ascough Robert kilmer<br />
Edward Nicholas and Richard Beswick were and are the true, lawfull<br />
and sole owners of her and of her tackle apparell and furniture<br />
and Gunns and living in the same Commonwealth, namely the<br />
said Ayscough, kilmer and Nicholas at London, and the said Beswick<br />
at hull, and all well knowne to this deponent. And further that<br />
the said owners bought the said shipp of this deponent who caused her<br />
to be built, and was sole owner of her till hee sold her to the said<br />
fowre English men (her now owners), which was on the fifteenth<br />
first day (old stile) of this present moneth saving the said Beswick bought his said part about halfe a yeere after and # And lastly that
[#] halfe before<br />
the said master Ascough who is a woollen draper dwelling in<br />
Towerstreete London) is owner of three eighth parts of the said shipp<br />
tackle, apparell, furniture and gunes, Robert kilmer and Edward<br />
Nicholas, alsoe drapers and dwelling in the same streete, each of them<br />
owner of a quarter part; and the said Richard Beswick who is a<br />
mariner, and master of the said shipp is owner of an eighth part<br />
of the said vessell, tackle, apparell funiture and gunes.
flaus Lanaisas [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Richard Beswick''' of hull mariner, aged 27 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne and exámined as aforesaid, saith as<br />
followeth videlicet
That the interrogated Edward Ayscough liveing in Towerstreete<br />
London woollen draper, is owner of three eighth parts of the shipp the<br />
''Anna and Mary'' interrogated and of her tackle apparell, and guns<br />
Robert kilmer and Edward Nicholas alsoe woollen drapers and liveing<br />
in the same streete each of them owner of a quarter part, and this<br />
deponent of an eighth part of her and of her tackle apparell and guns.<br />
And saith they were and are all foure Englishmen and subiects of this<br />
Commonwealth, and this deponent hath bin about eighteene monthes owner<br />
of his said part, and the other three about tenn days owners of theirs<br />
and that the said shipp, tackle apparell and guns were bought by them of his<br />
precontest Nicholas lorson, and that shee is of the burthen of about two hundred<br />
tonnes and carrieth seaven gunns, All which hee knoweth being master of her<br />
and one of her owners as aforesaid.
Richard Beswicke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]id.
Richard Beswicke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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